Sprindis added that the flower, much like the “corpse flower” (aka Amorphophallus titanum), will also “smell like rotting flesh. The flower is native to the Indonesian island of Sumatra and ...

All 42 known species of the parasitic plant Rafflesia, often known as the corpse flower, are endangered due to runaway destruction of their tropical forest habitats.

The corpse flower blooms for the first time in its 15 years at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens.

SYDNEY (AP) — The rare unfurling of an endangered plant that emits the smell of decaying flesh drew hundreds of ... a fragrance evoking gym socks and rotting garbage. Tall, pointed and smelly ...

Also known as the "corpse flower" because it smells like rotting flesh, the giant plant began blooming on Monday. The bloom only lives for 72 hours. It's expected to close again on Wednesday.